https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/pages/385-0001-entrance-to-the-tunnel/
https://fromoldbooks.org/r/R/pages/385-0002-first-tube-train-interior/
https://fromoldbooks.org/r/R/pages/385-0003-first-tube-train-passengers/

The first London underground railway (now affectionately called the tube); the 1870 newspaper article about it is in the description in the first Web link above.

It was narrow-gauge, 2'6", and would have been more cramped than the third picture suggests.

#vintageEngravings #oldNews #fobo #vintageEngraving #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #IllustratedLondonNews #1870 #railway #railways #tube #londonUnderground #history

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/pages/246b-giant-dam/

I got the book in Lisbon when i had to stay unexpectedly overnight, and the hotel was next to a wonderful bookshop. It includes several serialized stories; this one is Misadventures of an Insect Colony, by Erneste Cadèze, an entomologist, written to try to make more people like insects.

#GIMP #GIMP3 #fobo #dam #insects #engraving #Gimp_3 #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #downrightWeird

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/LewisCaroll-AliceThroughTheLookingGlass/pages/203-Queen-Alice-Knocking-at-the-Door/

The Dalziel Brothers did a great job engraving this Tenniel picture, with a stuck-up Queen Alice knocking on a Royal door (in Norman style) with her scepter while the frog servant holds a rake.

The Dalziel Brothers were a respectable London firm of engravers for many years and did a lot of great work.

#alice #AliceThroughTheLookingGlass #lewisCarrol #royalty #fobo #vintageArt #engraving #vintageEngraving #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #Dalziel #Tenniel

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rouam-MuseeArtistiqueV/pages/186-dragon-things-1-birth/

A political cartoon from the 1590s, one of three reproduced in an 1881 French art journal, opposing the protestant king Henri IV of France.

I removed the caption from this image with GIMP ; it was originally above the creatures inside the box, which i reduced accordingly.

#GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #fobo #vintageEngravings #politicalMeme #dragon #vintageArt #engraving #cartoon #GIMP

https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/11/17/gimp-3-2-RC1-released/

Our first release candidate for #GIMP 3.2 i s available, after months of hard work. Note: this is still a development snapshot, not a final release. Please report any problems or crashes you find.

Updates to link layers, vector layers, non-destructive editing, UI/UX, new import formats, better #SVG & #PDF export, bug and security fixes and more.

#GIMP3 #GImp_3 #beta #imageEditor #GPL #freeSoftware

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rouam-MuseeArtistiqueV/pages/001-at-laundry/

After a painting by Fernand Pelez, a Spanish-born artist living in Paris known for painting beggars and the homeless, circus performers, and the poor.

Genre paintings like this became popular in the 19th century, alongside more traditional formal classical portraits and hunting or battle scenes. Often they are very idealised, but i think not here.

#vintageArt #fobo #laundry #washing #vintageEngraving #GIMP #GIMP3 #GImp_3

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rouam-MuseeArtistiqueV/pages/306-angel-announcing-christmas/

The firm of Yves & Barret in Paris developed a #photoengraving technique drawing on zinc and then dusting it with resin that stuck to the ink, then using acid to etch away the zinc elsewhere to make a printing block.

Here an #angel is blowing a #trumpet to announce #christmas and the invention of the #hashtag.

First from this book, vol. 5 of a series. I also have vols 4 and 6, picked up cheaply on a business trip years ago.

Art #GIMP #Gimp_3 #fobo #GIMP3

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Thomson-TheLandAndTheBook/pages/196-tomb-of-hiram/

The tomb of King Hiram I... or not... this author is not as gullible as the one who bought a piece of “the tower of babel” and brought it home as a keepsake, in another book i have, but this tomb is some 500+ years after Hiram.

It is described as being in Palestine; with more modern borders the area is in Lebanon.

#fobo #palestine #vintageArt #biblicalPlaces #KingHiram #tomb #vintageEngraving #engraving #GIMP #Gimp_3 #GIMP3

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Thomson-TheLandAndTheBook/pages/431-nazareth/

Today Nazareth is the largest city in the Northern district if what is now called Israel. Bible scholars also consider Nazareth to have been the likeliest birthplace of Jesus.

Maybe another #duotone or maybe pure brown #lithograph (there’s some black in there, though)

#GIMP made quick work of this one, printed on smoother calendered paper in 1894.

#biblicalScenes #fobo #vintagePhotograph #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #vintagePhotography #palestine

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Godey-LadysBook-1870a/pages/vol-lxxxi-000-packing-a-trunk/

Mild travel-anxiety humour from 1870, packing #luggage with the whole family trying to close the trunk while the driver awaits.

Scanned this in colour and used the mono mixer in #GIMP to cope with foxing (browning) of the paper - which was blue.

#vintageArt #cartoon #cartoons #funny #travel #travelLife #victorianCostumes #GIMP3 #Gimp_3